(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99) Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhymes (Hamish Hamilton, £18.99) The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolanįollowing the tremendous success of her debut novel Exciting Times, Dolan returns with a blisteringly good comedy of errors about a soon-to-be married couple, the bridesmaid, the best man and one of the guests. Thus begins a tale about identity, memory and severed selves that Freud would have adored. Now she finds herself in Athens, drawn to a woman in a flea-market who is her doppelgänger.

(Viking, £20) Best of the rest August Blue by Deborah LevyĮlsa is a famous pianist in crisis ever since she lost her place in the music mid concert and walked off stage. Subtitled “How It Explains the World,” and deep-diving into everything from bodies to paintings to aeroplane seats, this book is ambitious in scope but wonderfully granular in detail – and really will change the way you think about just about everything. The latest in the Czech-Canadian scientist’s long line of mind-expanding publications sees him turn his attention to size. (Borough Press, £16.99) Non-fiction pick Size by Vaclav Smilīill Gates once said that that there is no author whose books he looks forward to more than Vaclav Smil’s. Smart, satirical, nuanced and best of all, an addictively entertaining, one-sitting kind of thriller. Soon June has published the book under the name of Juniper Song – but it isn’t long before the sweet taste of critical acclaim turns sour. So when June witnesses Athena die in a freak accident, she acts on impulse – first by taking Athena’s unfinished manuscript, then by completing it, and finally in submitting it to her agent as her own. While June Hayward’s writerly achievements are dead in the water, her former university friend Athena Liu is a literary darling revelling in the kind of success that all authors dream of. Fiction pick Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

The Girls by Emma Cline